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Rules of the ProCook Group plc
Performance Share Plan 2021
Adopted on 29 October 2021
Amended by resolution of the shareholders on [19 September 2023]
Expires on 29 October 2031
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CONTENTS
Rule | Page | |
1 | INTERPRETATION | 2 |
2 | COMMITTEE MAY GRANT AWARDS | 87 |
3 | RESTRICTIONS ON THE GRANTING OF AWARDS | 87 |
4 | GRANT OF AWARDS | 9 |
5 | PERFORMANCE CONDITION | 1110 |
6 | DIVIDEND EQUIVALENT SHARES | 1211 |
7 | EXERCISE OF AWARDS | 1312 |
8 | CASH EQUIVALENT | 1413 |
9 | RESTRICTIONS UPON THE EXERCISE OF AWARDS AND LAPSE OF AWARDS | 14 |
10 | CESSATION OF EMPLOYMENT | 1514 |
11 | CHANGE IN CONTROL, LIQUIDATION AND DEMERGER | 1615 |
12 | ADJUSTMENT OF AWARDS | 17 |
13 | PRO-RATING OF AWARDS ON EARLY EXERCISE | 1817 |
14 | CLAWBACK AND MALUS | 18 |
15 | COSTS | 2019 |
16 | ADMINISTRATION | 20 |
17 | GENERAL | 2120 |
18 | AMENDMENTS TO THESE RULES | 21 |
19 | OVERSEAS EMPLOYEES | 2221 |
20 | DATA PROTECTION | 22 |
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RULES
of the
PROCOOK GROUP PLC PERFORMANCE SHARE PLAN 2021
1. INTERPRETATION In these Rules:
1.1 the following expressions have the following meanings unless inconsistent with the context:
"Admission Date" | the date that the Shares are admitted to the premium | |
listing segment of the Official List of the UK Financial | ||
Conduct Authority and to trading on the Main Market of | ||
the London Stock Exchange | ||
"Adoption Date" | the date on which the Plan is adopted by a resolution | |
of the Board | ||
"Award" | subject to Rule 88, a right to acquire Shares for nil | |
consideration granted to an Eligible Employee pursuant | ||
to the Plan and for the time being subsisting (or, where | ||
the context so requires, a right to acquire Shares so to | ||
be granted) | ||
"Award Certificate" | a certificate issued pursuant to Rule 4.44.4 | |
"Award Date" | in respect of any Award, the date upon which that | |
Award is granted by the Company | ||
"Award Holder" | a person holding an Award or, where the context so | |
requires, the legal personal representatives of such a | ||
person and in the context of Rule 1414only, in | ||
addition to the persons identified in the foregoing | ||
provisions of this definition, a person who has at any | ||
time held an Award | ||
"Balancing Payment" | in respect of an Award, such amount as is determined | |
in accordance with Rules 14.414.4or 14.514.5 | ||
"Base Salary" | on the date in question, the basic annual salary of an | |
Eligible Employee under their contract of employment | ||
with the Company or any Subsidiary excluding, for the | ||
avoidance of doubt, any of the following: | ||
(a) | any expenses, the provision of living | |
accommodation or any other form of | ||
allowances or benefits; | ||
(b) | benefits in kind; | |
(c) | bonuses; | |
(d) | share options and any other share incentive | |
award; and | ||
(e) | employer's pension contributions | |
"Board" | the board of directors for the time being of the | |
Company or the directors present at a duly convened |
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meeting of the directors or a duly appointed committee | ||
of the board of directors at which a quorum is present | ||
"Committee" | the remuneration committee of the Board | |
"Company" | ProCook Group plc (registered number 13679248) | |
"Control" | the meaning given to that term by section 995 of the | |
Income Tax Act 2007 and "Controlled" shall be | ||
construed accordingly | ||
"Dealing Day" | a day on which the London Stock Exchange is open for | |
the transaction of business | ||
"Dividend Equivalent | in relation to any Award, the Shares notionally added | |
Shares" | to such Award pursuant to the provisions of Rule 66 | |
"Early Exercise Trigger" | in respect of any Award, the first to occur of: | |
(a) | the Award Holder ceasing to be an Eligible | |
Employee in circumstances where, pursuant | ||
to Rule 1010, the Award may be exercised | ||
(or would be capable of being exercised but | ||
for the application of Rule 10.1.110.1.1) in | ||
a stated period of time after such cessation of | ||
employment; or | ||
(b) | an event referred to in Rules 11.211.2to | |
11.711.7inclusive by reference to which the | ||
Award may be exercised (or would be capable | ||
of being exercised but for the application of | ||
Rule 11.1.111.1.1) | ||
"Eligible Employee" | any individual who, at the relevant date, is an | |
employee (including an executive director) of any | ||
company within the Group | ||
"Employee Tax Liability" | all income tax and/or employee's national insurance | |
contributions or similar levies for which a company in | ||
the Group (or any other person who, at the relevant | ||
time, is the employer of the Eligible Employee) is | ||
obliged to account to HMRC | ||
"Excess Shares" | in respect of an Award to which Rule 14.314.3applies, | |
the number of Shares over which the Award would not | ||
be, or would not have been, capable of exercise but for | ||
the relevant circumstance, such number of Shares | ||
being determined by the Committee in its absolute | ||
discretion | ||
"Executive Director" | any executive director of the Company from time to | |
time | ||
"Exercise Period" | in respect of an Award: | |
(a) | the period commencing on the day | |
immediately after the Vesting Date in respect | ||
of such Award (or if later the date on which | ||
any conditions imposed pursuant to Rule 55 | ||
are satisfied) and ending on the day |
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immediately before the tenth anniversary of | ||
the Award Date; or | ||
(b) | such shorter period as may be determined by | |
the Committee in its absolute discretion as at | ||
the Award Date; or | ||
(c) | if the Award Holder, having not previously | |
exercised the Award, shall be prevented from | ||
so doing on the last day of the periods set out | ||
above by virtue of Rule 9.19.1, the period | ||
ending 21 days after the first day on which | ||
the Award Holder is no longer so prevented | ||
(but no later than the tenth anniversary of the | ||
Award Date) | ||
"Financial Year" | a financial year of the Company (as determined in | |
accordance with the provisions of section 390 of the | ||
Companies Act 2006) | ||
"General Offer" | a general offer to acquire the whole or part of the | |
issued ordinary share capital of the Company (or such | ||
part of such capital as is not then owned by the offeror | ||
or any company Controlled by the offeror and/or any | ||
persons acting In Concert with the offeror) as a result | ||
of which the offeror (or any such companies and/or | ||
such persons) may gain Control of the Company | ||
"Group" | the Company and all of the Subsidiaries for the time | |
being or, where the context so requires, any one or | ||
more of them | ||
"HMRC" | HM Revenue & Customs or where the context so | |
requires in relation to any Award Holder or Eligible | ||
Employee who is subject to taxation in a jurisdiction | ||
outside the United Kingdom, any other equivalent body | ||
or fiscal authority competent to collect or impose taxes | ||
in the relevant jurisdiction concerned | ||
"Holding Period" | in respect of any Award, a period starting on the | |
Normal Vesting Date and ending on the second | ||
anniversary of the Normal Vesting Date, or such other | ||
period as the Committee may determine as at the | ||
Award Date | ||
"In Concert" | the meaning given to that term in The City Code on | |
Takeovers and Mergers as amended from time to time | ||
"Issue or Reorganisation" | any capitalisation issue or rights issue (other than an | |
issue of shares pursuant to the exercise of an option | ||
given to the shareholders of the Company to receive | ||
shares in lieu of dividend) or open offer or any other | ||
variation in the share capital of the Company including | ||
(without limitation) any consolidation, sub-division or | ||
reduction of capital of the Company | ||
"ITEPA" | the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 | |
"London Stock | London Stock Exchange plc or any successor body | |
Exchange" | thereto |
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